Around the garden

We are really getting into autumn now. It's a race, in the greenhouse, for the last of the tomatoes and peppers to ripen before cold weather or even a frost comes and finishes them for good. Most of the larger tomatoes are going red though and many of the peppers are changing colour too. The peppers will be Ok as they are though. I picked what I think will be the last cucumber yesterday, unless there is another in hiding. They are so good at that

I have no garden anymore. At least not now. All my hydroponics are put away right now and a lot of my trees were damaged and my papaya destroyed.

Not your papaya tree, that's terrible (

How about the banana trees?

Annie, the bananas are fine. I had two beautiful papaya trees. I lost one durning a rare freeze last winter and now this one. It broke my heart.

Thank you Jen. I can rest knowing that I did everything I could. Sometimes though it just isn't enough. 

That's terrible Karen, but will it regrow? the root is still there, right?

wow, that's something.

And that I will be doing. As soon as things get better around here, a lot of flooding is still going on and not expected to crest until Thursday, I will start looking for replacements.

I am sure all the nurseries will be ding really well pretty soon. 

Spiders don't usually bother me but I really don'y want a Brown Recluse on me either.

No, some can be dangerous. There are several here that bite I think a bit at the moment as now is the season for them. I go into the greenhouse to pick some of the last tomatoes and end up sticking my head through webs, thinking the spider is there somewhere, and some are quite large. My tomatoes have groun up to overhead so it's like entering a tunnel lol

A buzzing was driving me crazy. It was coming from behind the tv. On investigation there was a bluebottle trapped in a web. I tried to let it free when a huge spider popped out and ran at me. The speed and size of it gave me a fright, and I really jumped back.

I had to let the fly out, as the noise was driving me crazy, but I did feel guilty...

Spiders are protective of their prey. Still, no wonder you had a fright: that spider obviously wanted its dinner.

No walker, no cane and the limp is going away. Things are looking up.

Thank you for asking Cherry.